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Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... bef...
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I grab on to her wrists, pull them away from her face and kiss her lips, lips that can’t kiss me b...
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My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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His hand moved to cup her cheek, his palm warm against her cold skin, and she found that her own fea...
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DAN BROOKS Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she br...
VICKIE JOHNSON
BOB SCHAFFER My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g...
MICHAEL HANEKE
Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield carried her names with ease. She was thirteen years old... STUART HILL Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to t...
STEPHEN COHEN My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s...
MARY LAWSON
Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33While Pamela Freyd was speaking to us on the record about h...
DAVID L. CALOF She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha...
LAURA JOPLIN
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ... GEENA DAVIS
she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... JODI PICOULT
She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... NEIL GAIMAN (Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was ...
DANIELLE JACKSON
If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 bo... TERRY BRADSHAW
Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper w... NEIL GAIMAN She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she...
TREVOR COLE
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN Although Gail Webster was subject to disqualification as a town officer, she was not disqualified. S...
GAIL WEBSTER Sue has been involved with the Company as an indispensable member of our Technical Advisory Board an...
ROBERT SOWAH I look at her and talk to her as an assistant coach at times. She doesn't say a lot to the other pla...
AL SORRENTINO
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... BEN JOHNSTON
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... MARLO THOMAS Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
MANON CARRIE
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ... RALPH FIENNES She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We...
STEVE HOLLOWAY I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same...
DAN CHAON
She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not onl... DANIELLE STEEL Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life ...
MARGARET GEORGE
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic... CARRIE FISHER
I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and ... ALDIS HODGE She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mo... ROBERT ENGLUND She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the s...
ANNE STUART Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose i...
BRIT BENNETT She took over your life in a good way. Towards the end of her life, I thought of her as a mother as ...
SUSAN DUEHLMEIER Basically Ali is pitching in the second half of her freshman year to a great degree. It was very val...
DON HOWARD
Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life ... SANTOSH KALWAR My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and ...
SARA BAUME He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr...
ANONYMOUS1234 She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she...
ROB DAVIS She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. ...
AMIT CHAUDHURI He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking...
PAULA BRACKSTON My mother is a very keen businesswoman. She came to this country from Poland in 1959. Her parents we...
LAURA PUCHOWICZ
Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ... PHILIP PULLMAN
...they all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO
She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ... SHERWOOD ANDERSON When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r... THIRUVALLUVAR
My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her ... MAHERSHALA ALI She went into the studio and laid down some foundation tracks. The engineer was pretty impressed wit...
ERIC KEAWE
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER It is very important to us that she comes back to assist us with this investigation. We hope that Ka...
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER TARIQUE GHAFFUR
My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wi... PAT CONROY
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's s...
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI
I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t... KATIE MCGARRY
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and... HENRY VAN DYKE My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally... TOM REISS
I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s... HENRY VAN DYKE She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop...
RAJIV GANDHI Rosa is a woman that we met in the early 1990s in Peru. She was affected by the civil unrest in her ...
JUANITA FOX This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an...
BERNHARD VON BULOW I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed...
JORI NUNES She was an inspiration for this team. We all saw how hard she worked to get back, her determination....
LONNIE BARTLEY
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a... THOMAS HARDY
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so... GASTON LEROUX She's very good at picking her game up when she needs to. I have to give her all the credit with the...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA She's a star in her own right -- launched by the show -- but has proven herself on her own. She prov...
BARRY JECKELL When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a ...
ROSAMUND LUPTON
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... bef... J.R. WARD [She] further advised [me] that she consensually allowed Sengstack to photograph her, using a digita...
MICHAEL TWOMEY
I grab on to her wrists, pull them away from her face and kiss her lips, lips that can’t kiss me b... KATIE MCGARRY My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five year...
RANEY ARONSON-RATH
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her... DENIS JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in h...
KATE MORTON Then, when she embroils you in a legal tangle over the matter, instead of monitoring the situation a...
TOM ROSENSTIEL Then, when she embroils you in a legal tangle over the matter, instead of monitoring the situation a...
TOM ROSENSTIEL Hers is one of the awards we look back on with great joy and satisfaction. Mother Teresa stands out,...
FRANCIS SEJERSTED
My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it. LES DAWSON She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her an...
HUBERT MARTIN
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ... NAPOLEON HILL
His hand moved to cup her cheek, his palm warm against her cold skin, and she found that her own fea... CASSANDRA CLARE She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ...
BERNICE KING
As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil... CHUCK NORRIS
Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for som... DAISY RIDLEY My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you get...
DANIELLE BROOKS Despite what she thinks, she and I are not that different, ... I have even heard her being referred ...
KARRINE STEFFANS My brother Kobi made my mother very proud when he was elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem. My sister m...
MOSHE KAHLON At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye...
JAMES MORRIS She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the...
DAN BROOKS Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she br...
VICKIE JOHNSON
